Fetch.ai launches $10M accelerator for AI agent startups

As the Fair Data Society puts it, we are laborers in the data economy. Our personal data — basically, the digital blueprint of our lives — gets collected by platforms we interact with, most often in a non-transparent way. At best, it is used to improve our user experience. At worst, our privacy gets breached,…

Grayscale notes that long term holders are increasingly dominating the Bitcoin markets over short-term speculators, driving demand relative to supply. A new report by crypto fund manager Grayscale Investments argues that the current Bitcoin (BTC) market structure “parallels that of early 2016 before it began its historic bull run.”Grayscale predicts that demand for Bitcoin will…

Year after year, the ransomware landscape changes dramatically. In 2019, a new resurgence of attacks occurred as businesses and government institutions became the main targets of ransomware, given their capacity to yield larger payouts. The most recent attack was against Garmin, a navigation systems company, on July 23. Due to the attack, many of its online…

Reserve Bank of New Zealand however said that crypto and stablecoins should be more closely monitored. The New Zealand central bank is ramping up its monitoring of stablecoins and crypto-assets following public submissions, but has stopped short of calling for a “regulatory approach.”Ian Woolford, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s director of money and cash,…

BitTorrent token’s (BTT) price has gone up over 600 percent since its initial coin offering (ICO) which sold out in minutes, according to the data from CoinMarketCap on Feb. 4.Peer-to-peer torrent client BitTorrent, which allows users to distribute files over the Internet launched its Tron-based native token BTT in the beginning of January. BTT is…

Celo founder Rene Reinsberg discusses entering the early phases of mainnet and The Celo Foundation’s recent $10 million auction. 723 Total views 24 Total shares The Celo Foundation raised $10 million for its blockchain platform Celo in a dutch auction on CoinList on May 12.The auction sold out within 12 hours, with Celo Gold (cGLD)…

Trump drops series 2 NFT collection ahead of presidential runAnother round of digital nonfungible tokens (NFTs) trading cards have dropped bearing the likeness of former United States President Donald Trump, with 38,001 minted on Polygon (MATIC).The collection was launched on April 18 at a price of $99 each, it currently has a floor price of…

BlackRock’s IBIT Bitcoin fund had its biggest inflow day since July 22 as Bitcoin slipped back under $64,000 following a weekly rally.

South Korea has begun a six-month training course to turn forty-two applicants into “blockchain specialists,” local media report Monday, September 3.Aiming to increase the availability of skilled professionals in South Korea’s burgeoning blockchain economy, the course is the result of a three-way partnership between the Ministry of Technology and ICT, the Korean Standards Association (KSA)…